Iceland’s volcano may erupt with 20,000 earthquakes in 10 days. Is this related to climate change?

Whether the increase in the frequency of global volcanic eruptions is related to global warming, both volcanologists gave a negative answer. There is no direct connection between global warming, melting of icebergs and the increase in the frequency of global volcanic eruptions.

Xu Jiandong said that volcanic activity has its own laws and is not affected by global warming. Global climate warming and glacier retreat will indeed reduce the static rock pressure beneath glacier areas, which is relatively conducive to volcanic eruptions, but this is only limited to glacier-volcano areas like Iceland.

Sulpizio also explained that in fact, imagine that the temperature of magma is close to 1,000 degrees Celsius. A global increase of 1 degree Celsius will hardly affect the operating system of volcanoes.

Xu Jiandong introduced that in fact, large-scale volcanic eruptions will in turn have an impact on global climate change. The aerosols produced by volcanic eruptions are like holding up a "big umbrella" for the earth, which will block solar radiation to a certain extent and cause global climate cooling.

Of course, although global warming will not cause volcanic eruptions, Sulpizio also warned that if global warming continues to develop, extreme weather and climate events will definitely become more frequent. "This is a problem for humans, not the earth. The earth will always find another equilibrium point, but it is still unknown whether our current civilization will survive the disaster of extreme weather caused by global warming."

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The Icelandic volcano that is “ready to move”

On March 4th alone, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Iceland’s *** detected about 3000 earthquakes. In the past ten days, more than 20,000 earthquakes have occurred.

However, earthquakes are not the whole story. The Icelandic Meteorological Office announced on March 3 that these earthquakes are most likely caused by magma activity underground. In other words, Iceland has been dormant for nearly 800 years. Volcanoes in the southwest may be about to erupt.

Now, the Icelandic Meteorological Office has announced that the warning level of the Reykjanes Peninsula has been raised from "yellow" to "orange". "Orange" is the third warning level, which means that the volcanic eruption has already Imminently, when the alert level is raised to "red", it means that the volcano will begin to erupt.

According to local Icelandic media, Iceland Review, the Director of the Icelandic National Police, Víir Reynisson, said at a press conference on March 3 that a volcanic eruption is highly likely and may occur. The extent of the outbreak within the next few hours is currently unknown. There is no immediate danger, but people should avoid traveling to the Reykjanes Peninsula area.

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